Trocadero Deux – one of the not-a-chair sculptures that are the core of the exhibit. Drew Langsner’s “This is Not a Chair” exhibit celebrates 25 year’s of the artist’s work, and features abstract “multi-hollow servers,” sculptures from found materials and his most recent work, sculptures made from deconstructed chairs, as well as examples of his …
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Editor’s note: The chair chat you are about to read this time features a backstool wearing leg warmers. If you already feel hot, please don’t read on. We don’t authenticate chairs – we just talk about what we like and don’t like. We don’t know much about this chair. Its age, where it’s from, who …
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It is rare that a book review makes me even chuckle, but a new post by furniture designer/maker James Watriss about Nancy Hiller’s “Kitchen Think” made me laugh aloud (and not just the introduction, in which he worries “if the world really needs a blond-haired white guy praising a woman for writing about woodworking”). Along …
Oscar with his birthday hamburgers. Nancy Hiller’s “Shop Tails,” a companion book of essays to “Making Things Work,” is in the design phase. “Shop Tails” is different from “Making Things Work” in that it is structured around the animals that have come in and out of Nancy’s life, with each chapter focusing on a different …
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This is an excerpt from “By Hound and Eye” by Geo. R. Walker and Jim Tolpin; illustrated by Andrea Love. Now let’s move past bisection and divide a line into a bunch of evenly spaced intervals. This process is useful for laying out such things as: Now let’s divide a line up into four equal …
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We have replenished our stock of “The Woodworker’s Pocket Book” in our online store, and it is available for immediate shipment. The price is $13 plus shipping. This little book is so popular that we sold out of the first press run before it even hit our warehouse. If you are on the fence about …
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Top: House of the Vettii, Pompeii, March 2017. Bottom: Saalburg, Germany, June 2017. This time last year Chris Schwarz and Narayan Nayar were in Naples, Italy. In between consuming vast quantities of pizza they made a visit to Pompeii to study and photograph a fresco depicting a Roman workbench (Daedalus and Queen Pasiphae are also …